Grisanti will co-sponsor medical marijuana legislation

by jmaloni

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Thu, May 29th 2014 08:10 am

State Sen. Mark Grisanti,
R-I-Buffalo, announced he will co-sponsor the Compassionate Care Act, which
would legalize the delivery and use of marijuana by seriously ill patients who
need the drug for treatment of their illnesses.

"I have seen too much
suffering - suffering that can only be alleviated by medical marijuana,"
Grisanti said. "I cannot stand by and let such suffering continue."

"I was especially touched by
the many cases in Western New York: Joey Wertman from Hamburg and Anna Conte
from Orchard Park who is 8 years old and suffers from Dravet syndrome, which
causes her to have seizures - sometimes hundreds each day," he added.

Grisanti is the first Western New
York senator to co-sponsor the bill and was one of the first Republican
lawmakers to publicly support the legislation.

"I urge my colleagues to join
me in helping pass this important piece of legislation for the Wertman family,
for the Conte family, and for all the other families in New York who need this
medication," he said.

Grisanti currently represents the
60th Senate District, which includes parts of the City of Buffalo, the north towns
and the south towns. Grisanti is chairman of the Environmental Conservation
Committee and currently sits on the finance, cities, cultural affairs, tourism,
parks and recreation, higher education, infrastructure and capital investment,
insurance, labor and veterans, homeland security and military affairs
committees in the Senate as well as the MS Legislative Alliance for the Senate.